12.12.10

... pieces of and seams from a pair of whitecotton pyjama pants the former owner finallydiscarded with a heavy heart and gave them tome, after having taken them twice already to atailor´s to be mended...

This extraordinary moon reminded me of a curtainI´d thrifted for its flowers, so I dug it out anddecided to use a brown one here, impersonatingthese with their snowy hats, on the balcony...

This was taken last week, though, by now it´sraining. I considered a snow yoyo... No.

So it will be just a little humble white cottonsquare, representing snows long gone by...

And there´s a silk stem...

And there´s a foot-note, about shopaholism -no, not me, I´ve confessed about my three red bagsalready recently (in the comments to the WinterPastels post), and that is it... - but I´ve beenmentioned here at Shopaholic... - as a journalist,I´ve been working on consumer information topicsmyself for a long time, and know what a tightropewalk it can be, so I think they´re doing quite agood job...

10.12.10

A keen observer. I made her a couple of weeks agoand let her observe me for while - but now she´s inthe shop, they can´t stay here all with me forever...She´s good company, I can tell you - I´m very fondof her earnest stare, and her Tilda Swinton hairdo...

6.12.10

As I mentioned already, I´ve been thinking ofworking with old pieces of cloth, made by someoneelse, unknown to me, somewhere - bringing them intoa new context that way, refreshing and keeping them... As they can´t be found on the streets like the scrapsof handwritten paper I´m in the habit of rescuing,I purchased some old and battered quilt fragmentsvia Etsy - and here´s a little piece I made for astart...